Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-22

chestors and revolvers on tho occupants OF
the jail The officers returned the fire. fight
ing bravely for their man, and after fierce
fight succeeded in repulsing the mob, severe
ly wounding several Of them and saving the
life OF their prisoner. The news that Allen
was attempting to obtain his release on bail
enraged the Leotians-"
In its report upon the Chatsworth disas-
ter, the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission censures the Toledo, Peoria and War
saw Railroad for not patrolling its tracks
FURTHER particulars OF the horrible burn
ing OF the Harris family, near Washington,
OAK, are telegraphed from Huron, Dak
They lived ON farm I'm a two-story house.
About midnight Mr.. Harris awoke and found
the lower part OF the house in flames. Himself,
the second story. The IRE had gotten such
headway that he was obliged to Jump from the
window. and called TO his wife and Parr.
him. Parr and Harris Oldest boy jumped
from tho window, leaving Mrs Harris to Get
out the children. She threw the baby TO her
husband, and returned for another child, when
the moor gave way and the roof and side of the
building fell In, engulnng her and tho
remaining six children in the FIRE. Tho
that IL was impossible to render any assist
ance. All were in their night-clothes. Parr
went TO neighbor's, mile and u half distant,
for help returning with his feet and hands
badly frozen. Tho baby was put in the barn
and covered with hay till assistance came, but
It was also badly frozen: The seven bodies
were removed from the debris in a blackenod
and almost unacceptable condition The
feet, hands. and legs OF some fell OF as they
were taken up. Tho family were from Mount
Ayr, Ind.
KANSAS CITY special: Sands Hopkins has
committed suicide by taking laudanum De-
H. - III
died twenty years ago, leaving the boy a large
amount OF real estate. which has since in
creased immensely in value, and year ago
the victim of last nights tragedy was held to
be worth almost sl,000,c0l For the last two
years he had led a dissolute life, plunging
wildly into dissipation, and spending large
sums of money in reckless manner He was
the dupe of gamblers, who bled him for thou
sands of dollars, and the influence of his
and friends to tear him away from
these associates proved futile Sands was
still very young man, having just passed his
twenty ninth birthday"
WoNG All LUNG, a Ch;naman of San Fran
cisco, has been sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment and fined $4,000 for importing
women into the country for immoral pur-
poses
BROKEN Bow (Neb) dispatch says: A
young farmer named James Rankin, living |
about eighteen miles northeast Of here,
started out on the morning of Do. 10 for |
hunt in a sleigh. When he had reached a |
point in the woods about half mile from |
his fathers house his double barreled shot
gun slipped off the seat and in attempt
ng to draw it toward him the hammers
,aught and both loads discharged into his
leart HIS clothing caught fire from the
lash and was burned of, with the exception
II the overshoes. The remains were discov-
red Thursday morning, lying in the seat OF
no sleigh, about quarter of mile from the
main road, in the woods His right hand still
leld tho rcins firmly, and the horses were
tand nS on the edge of deep ravine. They
lad been without food since the accident oc-
urred, and had gnawed tho sleigh-t tongue
earlv in two